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The essential elements of a negligence action are:  
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: (1) a duty of reasonable care owed by the defendant to plaintiff;
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: (2) a breach of that duty;
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: (3) the causation, both actually and proximately, of injury; and
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: (4) the suffering of damages by the plaintiff.
  
# D owed P. a duty
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[https://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?q=negligence&hl=en&as_sdt=4,45&case=16463568385890072797&scilh=0 Williams v. Melby, 699 P. 2d 723 (Utah 1985)].
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# Breach proximately caused damages
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# Damages
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Latest revision as of 04:56, 20 January 2015

The essential elements of a negligence action are:

(1) a duty of reasonable care owed by the defendant to plaintiff;
(2) a breach of that duty;
(3) the causation, both actually and proximately, of injury; and
(4) the suffering of damages by the plaintiff.

Williams v. Melby, 699 P. 2d 723 (Utah 1985).